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Pacific Hydro to trade carbon credits from Chilean hydro project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... Fund, has received permission to create and trade carbon credits derived from a river hydro asset in Chile. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change confirmed to Pacific Hydro that the 158MW La ...

Rio Tinto annual report: fewer injuries, increase in GHG emission

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... negotiated community impact benefit agreements, an increase of US$47m on 2009. Rio Tinto noted in its sustainable development review that in 2010, the company expanded its stakeholder assessment to include key shareholders, investment houses, academics ...

GRI releases new standards for sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI ) has updated its sustainability guidance to enhance reporting of operations impacting on human rights, gender and community. The new version, 3.1, is touted as improvements that strengthen expansiveness of reporting ...

AGL wins award for sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... field," the panel noted. The judging panel was made up of Victorian Department of Primary Industries Energy Sector Development Division Director Ralph Griffiths, Latrobe Institute for Social and Environmental Sustainability's Research Fellow Stephen ...

PRI hires Rob Lake as director of strategic development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011  |  NEWS
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has hired Rob Lake as director of strategic development, effective 16 May. Rob Lake Lake will be responsible for PRI's country networks, signatory outreach and recruitment, the academic network and the public ...

Sustainability reporting: the drive towards integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... sustainability report," Woo said. "It's about bringing sustainability as an issue for consideration. It's a strategic development, into customer interface. It's about explaining the material opportunities and risks in one space that might have economic ...

Australian companies asked to disclose water exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... companies. The IGCC has sent the water questionnaire as part of a separate, global survey conducted with the CDP. "The main development is the scale of the project this year," Fabian said. "It's going out in multiple markets internationally for the first ...

Climate change a portfolio risk: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011  |  NEWS
The impacts of climate change and lack of international policy coordination could cost institutional investors trillions of dollars over coming decades, with Australia potentially being one of the worst hit countries if international response to carbon ...